Insights Archives

Minnesota is home to 322,000 young children. How are our youngest residents doing? We take a look at the demographics and overall well-being of our state's young children.

The backgrounds, circumstances, and experiences of Minnesota’s immigrants have changed considerably over time, and differ from the nation as a whole. In this article, learn a few things about Minnesota's immigrant communities in the past, today, and into the future.

Here are a few things we can learn about Minnesotans with disabilities from Minnesota Compass data.

Learn about ways that nonprofits can better support pathways into leadership and factors that were key to government leaders taking roles in public service, based on responses to our most recent leadership surveys.

Each year, our team looks at each key measure to determine whether it is trending better, worse, or the same. This year, we kept coming up against a thorny question: When is “about the same” not good enough?

April is National Volunteer Month. We know that Minnesota is home to many residents who give back to their communities in lots of different ways. Here are some quick facts about Minnesota’s volunteers.

We know you visit the Minnesota Compass website to track trends, learn about diverse groups of Minnesotans, and make informed decisions about your community. But there is even more on the Compass website that you may have missed. Here are a few hidden gems on our website.

This article serves as a follow-up to the initial reports of federal data erasure, documenting a transition from isolated data removal to the systemic dismantling of the agencies responsible for national record-keeping. It explores how the targeted suppression of "woke" metrics—specifically those tracking racial and gender-based disparities—has expanded into a broader campaign against institutional transparency.